Health written question – answered at on 13 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the case for introducing a mandatory licensing scheme for psychotherapists.
The Government's view is that any assessment of the case for mandatory statutory regulation of psychotherapists, will only take place in light of the experience of assured voluntary registration.
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 provides for the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, which is to be renamed the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA), to quality assure voluntary registers of unregulated health care professionals and health care workers in the United Kingdom, social care workers in England, and certain students.
This will allow employers and people who use services to assure themselves that the practitioners they appoint or contract with meet appropriate standards of education, conduct and competence, and apply high ethical standards to their work, without placing an undue regulatory burden on practitioners or taxpayers. Only those registers, which meet the standards set by the PSA, will be able to be accredited.
A number of organisations including ones relevant to psychotherapy have already expressed their interest to the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence in becoming accredited voluntary registers.
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